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育 — to have children

to have children; to raise or bring up; to educate

Pinyin
yù
Strokes
8
HSK level
HSK 3
Handwriting
required

How to write 育: 8 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. This character is on the HSK handwriting list, so the exam expects you to write it, not only recognise it.

育 — 8 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

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Words with 育 in the HSK syllabus: 9

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 体育tǐyùsports; physical educationHSK 3
  2. 体育馆tǐyùguǎngym; gymnasium; stadiumHSK 3
  3. 教育jiàoyùto educate; to teach; educationHSK 4
  4. 发育fāyùto develop; to mature; growth; development; matureHSK 6
  5. 培育péiyùto train; to breedHSK 6
  6. 哺育bǔyùto feed; to nurture; to fosterHSK 7–9
  7. 生育shēngyùto give birth to; to bear; fertilityHSK 7–9
  8. 养育yǎngyùto rear; to bring up; to nurtureHSK 7–9
  9. 孕育yùnyùto be pregnant; to produce offspring; to nurtureHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.